farzal.ecommerce.spring2008.iba.khi.pk

Some stats:

Final average score, without curve: 73.6%

This is higher than average score for midterm 1 (60%), midterm 2 (68%).

After the promised curve, the final score is 82%.

About the length:

The question paper had spaces provided to guide you on length of the answer. This was the protocol followed throughout the semester.

Many of you forget our usual formula – 1 line per point, or may be 1.5 to 2.

But most completely disregarded that, just felt like writing on and on. I saw 4 page answer to 10 point questions, 1.5 page answer to 3 point questions, and 20+ lines for a 2 point question.

There were 14 pages in the question paper -  no one should have used more than 8 answer sheets. Instead, the minimum used were 14 and the maximum was 30+.

So in conclusion, on average, people wrote twice as much as they needed to. You could have easily saved 1+ hours of writing time and invested that into thinking time.

Good luck. Enjoy your summer.

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i don’t think its good practice to post full class grades here, as suggested by some, even though IBA may be OK with it. I will increase my work but reply to emails asking for final exam grades on 1-1 basis.

Please follow these instructions for easier processing of your final exam grade request

To receive final grades by email, please send me email in following format: 

Subject:  E-Commerce:Final

Body: <your full name at IBA>

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on request from Sonia .. the guide can be downloaded from here

Good luck - and see you on Thursday.

GUIDE

The final submission guide; this is only a guide.

For different groups, different sections will have different level of importance.

These are things we have covered throughout our semester, so I didn’t see a need for sending this out. However on popular request, here is it.

Implementation

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I am going to take all Thursday for project demonstrations and returning the final exam.

Here is Thursday’s schedule:

11am – 5pm: I will be on campus with all 6 groups getting 1 hour time slots to present the project (demo the software) and walk me through the documentation.

1. 11am – noon: Samar’s group
2. Noon – 1pm: Emad’s group
3. 1pm – 2pm: Aamir’s group
4. 2pm – 3pm: OPEN (Jibran)
   
5. 3pm – 4pm: OPEN (Hammad)
   
6. 4pm – 5pm: OPEN (Tehleel)

Good luck finalizing your projects over the next 4 days. If you need any help, as usual, I am mostly available on email, IM, phone, SMS, blog, etc. I am out of town Monday – Wednesday however, so little phone help during those days.

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Final exam, I’m being told, is on Monday, May 5th.

The exam paper will be combination of 25 lectures by me, and lectures/slides from lectures 26-28. I’ve been informed the case studies were not done from slides 26-28, so don’t research those online. just be prepared for the content in the slides.

Other than, I am on yahoo at most times. This weekend I am traveling, so please email or IM your questions by EOD Saturday. I will not be accessible on IM, email or phone Sunday or Monday.

Good luck. Most of you will do well if you did well in 2nd midterm or 1st midterm.

Thanks. Remember me in your prayers and I will do the same for each 37 of you.

Oh - don’t forget the reading and research links assigned for the past few lectures

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Slides for lecture 26, 27 and 28 have been posted on the blog

http://ecommerce.pkeducation.com/blog/files/

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Project submission, presentations will be done after I return on the 14^th. 

Group by group schedule will be sent once I have more details on final exam dates from CCS.

Good luck.

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We will be covering the following subjects in the respective order.

1. Why to join a startup, what to avoid, what to do right
2. Technology Outsourcing in the E-commerce world
3. SAAS
4. Open source, what it means (doesn’t mean free software), and 7 business models for making money in the OS community
5. Open source projects in Content Management – CMS’s, Wiki, Blogs, social networking, etc

I am trying to arrange 1 more guest lecture; let’s see. If not, we will have presentations

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1. Files for lecture 24 have been posted. One is class presentation, other contains R&D links
2. I received updates from only 3 groups. Other 3 groups have lost 1 point out of 100 for the project. You will lose 1 point every day.
3. By end day, I will be sending a post detailing everything I need as final delivery of the project

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average for quiz 3 was 55%

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